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Maya 8 for Windows and Macintosh
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Morgan, Author.
- Series:
- Visual quickstart guide
- Visual quickstart guide Maya 8 for Windows and Macintosh
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maya (Computer file).
- Computer animation--Computer programs.
- Computer animation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (544 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Other Title:
- Maya eight for Windows and Macintosh
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Peachpit Press 2007
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Adding sophisticated new tools that give modelers even more control over polygons, an already cool program just got even cooler. Here to take budding 3D artists from 0 to 60 fast in Maya 8 is the eagerly anticipated update to everybody's favorite Maya tome: Maya 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide! In these pages, best-selling authors Morgan Robinson and Nathaniel Stein use a combination of task-based instruction and strong visual aids to take readers step by step through all of Maya's essentials: navigating the interface, modeling elementary and complex objects, unsurpassed character rigging and posing, mastering deformers, shaders, and renderers, and more. Both beginning users, who want a thorough introduction to the topic, and more advanced users, who are looking for a convenient reference, will find what they need here in straightforward language and through readily accessible examples, peppered with tons of timesaving tips and tricks.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Maya Basics
- About Maya
- Maya's Interface
- Beginning a Project
- Importing, Exporting, and Referencing
- Maya Help
- Chapter 2: Navigating and Changing the Interface
- Dollying, Tracking, and Tumbling
- Using the View Menu
- Changing the Layout
- Changing the Interface
- About Display Options and Smoothness
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Chapter 3: Creating Primitives and Text
- About Primitive Types
- Creating Primitives
- About Text
- Naming Objects
- About Construction History
- Chapter 4: Transforming Objects and Components
- Moving, Rotating, and Scaling Objects
- About Pivot Points
- Duplication Options
- Mirroring and Instancing Objects
- Soft-Modifying Objects
- Chapter 5: Selection Modes, Hiding, and Templating
- Selecting Objects
- Selection Modes and Masks
- Using Quick Select Sets
- Hiding and Templating
- About Layers
- Chapter 6: Grouping, Parenting, and Aligning
- Grouping
- Parenting
- Grouping vs. Parenting
- Aligning and Snapping Objects
- The Snap Align Tools
- Chapter 7: NURBS Curves and Surfaces
- About NURBS Objects
- About NURBS Curves
- Creating NURBS Curves
- Editing NURBS Curves
- Opening, Closing, and Attaching Curves
- Altering Whole Curves
- Interactions Between Curves
- Creating Surfaces from Curves
- Surface Curves and Trims
- Modifying and Matching NURBS Surfaces
- Chapter 8: Polygons
- Modeling Polygons
- Creating and Deleting Polygon Components
- Splitting and Merging Polygon Components
- Subdividing and Merging
- Refining Polygons
- Surface Normals and Display
- Chapter 9: Subdiv Surfaces
- Subdiv Surface Components
- Refining Subdiv Surfaces
- Creasing Subdiv Surfaces
- Mirroring and Subdivs
- Subdiv Hierarchies
- Sculpting Subdivs
- Chapter 10: Skeletons and Rigging
- About Joints
- Adjusting Hierarchies.
- About IK Handles and Solvers
- About Spline IK
- About Constraints
- The Connection Editor
- Basic Rigging
- About Full Body IK
- Chapter 11: Parenting and Binding to a Skeleton
- Parenting to a Skeleton
- Using Rigid Bind
- Using Smooth Bind
- Chapter 12: Animation
- Animation Controls
- About Setting Keyframes
- Setting Animation Preferences
- Importing Sound Files
- About the Graph Editor
- About the Dope Sheet
- Muting Animation Channels
- Ghosting and Motion Trail
- Path Animation
- About the Trax Editor
- Previewing Your Animation
- Chapter 13: Deformers
- Nonlinear Deformers
- Blend Shapes
- Lattices
- Clusters
- Sculpt Deformers
- Jiggle Deformers
- Wire Deformers
- Wrinkle Deformers
- Wrap Deformers
- About Deformer Weights
- About the Deformation Order
- Hiding, Showing, and Deleting Deformers
- Chapter 14: Shaders, Materials, and Mapping
- About the Hypershade
- About IPR Renders
- About Materials
- About Texture-Mapping NURBS Surfaces
- Combining Materials
- About Projection Maps
- About Texturing Polygons
- Editing UVs
- Swimming Textures
- Texturing Using Painting Tools
- Chapter 15: Creating Lights
- About Lighting
- Setting Up for Lighting
- About Lights
- Mapping Images to Lights
- Looking Through a Light
- Light Linking
- About Shadows
- Chapter 16: Cameras and Rendering
- About Cameras
- About Rendering
- About the Maya Software Renderer
- About the Maya Hardware Renderer
- About the Maya Vector Renderer
- About Mental Ray
- About Render Layers
- Chapter 17: MEL and Expressions
- About the Script Editor
- About MEL Commands
- About Variables
- About Loops and If Statements
- About Procedures
- Using MEL Scripts
- Using Expressions
- Chapter 18: Dynamics
- Particles
- Emitters
- Render Types
- Fields
- Collisions
- Rigid-Body Dynamics
- Soft-Body Dynamics.
- Effects
- The Dynamic Relationships Editor
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612647277
- 9780132712507
- 0132712504
- 9781282647275
- 128264727X
- 9780321476784
- 0321476786
- OCLC:
- 1027147441
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